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Digital afterlives, sold as a subscription with metered data.

Eternity on a service tier. Premium residents golf and dine; those on the free plan run out of data mid-sentence and freeze until the month resets. The dead take customer-support calls.

Manufactured scarcity — The abundance is real, so a new scarcity gets invented to compete over.

A comedy, and the most precise satire here of scarcity reintroduced as a billing model.